Parents of Emile (5) have not found an appropriate school for the second year in a row: « Sometimes I am happy that he does not realize how little he counts » (inland)
Last year the parents of Emile de Saeger already got the lid on the nose: they had registered their son in five schools for special education type 2, because Emile received a lot of epileptic seizures as a child, so he sustained a developmental delay. He has the intellectual age of a toddler of 16 months and also has autism. « This year we registered him in seven schools, and again there is no place for him, » says his father Ive (39). « We had set our greatest hope for a new project, in which forty new type 2 places are created, but there we are in 111. »
Until the end of August, Emile can go to the Multifunctional Center Merlijn, where young children with a large care need are guided. « What happens next, Koffiedik keeps looking. Sometimes I am happy that he himself does not know how little he counts in this society. There are billions to defense and it is evident that employees get a company car. But there are not enough schools for our children. For the weakest in our society there is strict budgeting. »
Safety net, no solution
There is another plan B: “Because Emile is sitting at Merlijn, he gets lessons from special education in Sint-Job-in-‘t-Goor four hours a week. As a result, he is already registered in that school and can flow in. We live in Aartselaar, or about 30 kilometers from there. We would always have to get the ring. But not really a solution without restrictions.
Another ‘solution’ that is none: the boy was assigned a personal assistance budget, worth 33,000 euros per year. « But there are no budgets to pay this. That means that my wife Sofie and I have to take care of that care, who is not nothing, » says De Saeger. « That is why we started working less. But we now also have a six -month -old daughter, she is called Lou. To get her in the shelter, we both had to work at least four fifth works. Fortunately, the Constitutional Court has now destroyed those priority rules, because it was really too heavy for us. »
Other families
Other families with children with a heavy care need also received a phone call this week with the message that no school was found for them. « It is already the third or fourth time in a row, » says Samantha Frankhuizen from Hoboken. Her sons Rafaël (5) and Leonardo (6) have a developmental delay and autism. They go to a normal primary school, the dream catcher in Deurne 2.5 days a week. « The teachers do their utmost, but I don’t know how far their capacity will stretch. Also for therapy I bots everywhere on waiting lists. I sometimes wonder where it went wrong. What will they do later with all these children who did not get the right support and have not learned to be self -reliant? »
Samia El Mouhcini has given up no fewer than eleven schools for her son Ibrahim (7), who also has a developmental delay and autism, and presumably ADHD. “I have given up all possible schools in Antwerp and beyond, up to Mechelen, Rumst and Kalmthout. But it will be nothing. So the therapy in the rehabilitation center, twice a week, stops. They give priority to younger children. For the time being he is going to go to a normal kindergarten for 2.5 days. I am going to do a lot of things, but they don’t do that with a very one in that one in the next one, but they do not do that with a lot of them, but they do not do that with a lot of them, but they do not do it with a lot in that one does not do that with a lot in that one does not do that with a lot of them, but they do not do that with a lot in that one does not do that with a lot of them, but I am not doing a lot in that one does not do that with a lot of them, but they do not do that with a lot of them, but they do not do that with a lot of them in a lot, but I am not doing a lot in that one is not in a very one in that one is not in a very one in that. I don’t see him not being allowed to stay on the first grade?
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